The Woodmans | Full Documentary Movie | Francesca Woodman

Thank you so much for this upload!

It’s interesting to me to hear Francesca’s parents talk about how they felt in the period before and after she killed herself.

Merci de tout cœur pour ce documentaire sobre et intelligent. Une belle rencontre avec cette famille d’artistes authentiques.

Being an artist myself and the mother of a brilliant bi-polar son who has had several suicide attempts, it is clear to me that Francesca was bi-polar. It really starts to activate after age 18 and gets progressively worse into young adulthood. Her days without sleeping are clearly a period of mania which often leads to psychosis. My heart goes out to her family because I know the terror and confusion in trying to help someone with this condition. Medication is a help but to have them take it consistently is difficult. It was not their fault and during the early 80's so little was known about bi-polar illness. She was a brilliant photographer as Matthew Wong was a painter. Genius and madness often close neighbors. I hope someday there is a cure for this chemical imbalance. Thank you for sharing this video.

My comfort documentary

Thank you

Loved this movie - thank you

Man. Brilliant Francesca. Clearly a sweet incredibly talented spirit and artist. The Family. Well. Big time unlikable to me.

Thanks, Kino. Great film

I watched this documentary while deep into my heroin addiction. I thought that her parents considered her a lesser artist than themselves and were almost annoyed by the notoriety Francesca’s suicide gave her, almost like it made her art more meaningful and relevant than they thought it should be. When I watched it after getting clean I sympathized with her family a lot more. Now after eleven years clean I’m rewatching it and will probably get something new out of it. Either way it’s a great doc and I absolutely love Francesca’s art. She’s like the Sylvia Plath of photography, and not just because of the suicide. As someone with autism I’ve often thought of the possibility Sylvia Plath could be autistic and I feel a similar way about Francesca.
Edit: after watching it a bit I’m starting to see her parents in a bad light like when I originally watched it. They seem jealous of Francesca’s talent. One thing I noticed every time is that Francesca’s mom made that giant monstrous art piece, almost like if she could just make something more gigantic it might put her in the same league as Francesca. It seems so desperate and it’s really easy to see through her and see the motivation for things she creates and snide comments she makes. She knows Francesca’s art is superior and she can’t stand it.

The parents come across as very unlikable. And the musical score - the marimba especially - are irritating. No wonder Francesca turned out that way. What a visionary artist.

In 1999 I discovered her book at my university's library while looking for inspiration for a photography research paper and I've been in love with her work ever since. Admittedly she was an intriguing artist and person but I didn't know until the end of the book that she had died and by then her work had already influenced me and the aesthetics of my photography as well as the lens (her lens) of the world.

Not all artists should be parents … and these two are the perfect examples of that …and my childhood was bad so I’m glad I’m still here.

Absolutely love this woman . She is beautiful forever

Probably not bipolar but autistic. She was much too talented and misunderstood. No one realizes how misunderstood and misdiagnosed autistic people are. Their depression stems from their rejection by society.